Group Seeks Funding For Biofortification To Halt Micronutrients Deficiency News
levels to fund the effective implementation of various programmes aimed at addressing micronutrient deficiency in the country.
Through a crop breeding process called biofortification, micronutrient-enriched, climate-smart varieties of common staples provide essential iron, zinc, and vitamin A to rural households to improve nutritional status, health, and livelihoods.
Lamenting that Nigerians has nutritional challenges, he said biofortification has been in Nigeria for 10 years now.“What we are doing today is to stress the need for policymakers to see the need for budgetary allocation to seed production, saying in the past three years it is either growing or shrinking.
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